Beer drinkers beware: 4 percent of U.S. hops crop burns

[Fountain79]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/03/hops.fire.ap/index.html

I just want to cry.

Federal investigators were set Tuesday to begin an investigation into a fire that ruined about 4 percent of America's yield of hops, used as flavoring in the brewing of beer and ale.

The fire started shortly before noon Monday in a 40,000-square-foot (3,600-square-meter) warehouse operated by S.S. Steiner Inc., one of the four largest hop buyers in the Yakima Valley of central Washington. By mid-afternoon flames engulfed most of the building, sending up plumes of smoke and a pungent aroma.

[Bluzmann57]

1. Ohhhhh Nooooooooooo

This is bad news. I suppose it will raise the price of beer all across America now. Getting expensive to be a drunk.

[ShaneGR]

2. 10% price increase!

I know, the math doesnt add up. But Pete Coors is taking you to the cleaners. Soon. :-)

[Botany]

4. e.z. never buy coors or it's products

United States


Coors
Coors Light
Coors Extra Gold
Killian's
Blue Moon (wheat beer)
Keystone
Keystone Light is a pale 5.2% abv pale lager introduced in 1989. Packaged in "specially lined cans" intended to reduce metallic taste. The can is blue and silver and is narrower than a regular 12 ounce can of beer. An advertising campaign starring comedian Bob Marley claimed that Keystone Light relieved "Bitter Beer Face." The current advertising slogan is "Always Smooth, Never Bitter™."
Keystone Ice is packaged in similar cans as Keystone Light, but with black and silver instead of blue. The 5.8% abv is the only difference between Ice and Light.
Others
Zima
Aspen Edge
Winterfest (Seasonal)
Discontinued
Zima Gold
Coors Red Light
Coors Extra Gold Light
Coors Dry (western US only, discontinued?)
Coors Arctic Ice
Coors Cutter (non-alcohol)

UK
Beers
Allbright
Arc
Breaker
Caffrey’s:
Carling
Coors
Hancock’s
Lamot
M & B
Stones Bitter
Toby
Worthington
Others
Reef
Screamers
Java (discontinued in March 2004)

Molson Coors Brewing Company
Molson

[Fountain79]

5. Actually Molsen would be...

Coors is technically no longer an American brewing company.

[pooja]

3. Football season just became more expensive for everyone.

[nealmhughes]

6. But England and Bohemia remain...as does Eire.